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Canadians in Syria

Posted by: Ion | September 22nd, 2007 · 4:25 AM

Canadian energy firm Loon is making a sizable investment in the Syrian dictatorship. Worse, the price of Canada’s conscience comes cheap:

The Syrian government will receive 12.5% of production, while the rest will be split between the state-owned Syrian Oil Co. and the Canadian company at a 71-29 or 80-20 ratio, depending on the production amount.
(Edmonton Sun)

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Kostic’s Millions

Posted by: Ion | July 26th, 2007 · 7:31 PM

Here’s one of the most unusual political donations I’ve ever heard of. Deceased businessman Zoran Kostic, willed a sizable fortune of about $102 million to the British Conservative party before he died. That’s a substantial windfall for the still beleaguered Tories.

Alas, Kostic’s disowned son is disputing the award in court, on grounds that his father was a raving lunatic and therefore unfit to will anything. Admittedly, Kostic’s reasons for the donation are more than a bit crazy:

Both sides accept that Branislav Kostic, Zoran Kostic’s father, had been “delusionary insane” since 1985 when he divorced, broke off relations with his son and sister and claimed there was an international conspiracy of more than 100 people masterminded by sexually perverted pharmaceutical company executives to destroy “freedom, democracy and human purity”.
(The Guardian)

My own feeling is that being crazy does not entitle anyone to rob you. Believing in Satanic conspiracies, should not prevent you from buying a $1 candy bar in a 7-11. So why should the right to spend your money as you please, be revoked only after death? Presumably only because you’re no longer around to defend yourself and millions are at stake. That’s pretty rotten IMO.

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Hillarycare North and Issue Unification in the Democratic Party

Posted by: Ion | June 24th, 2007 · 11:17 AM

As one might expect, Hillary Clinton is smitten with Canada’s abominable socialist healthcare system. While you and I might regard that technically bankrupt monstrosity of understaffed inefficiency, low technology and endless waiting lists, to be a medical nightmare, to Hillary it’s an agent of national labor competitiveness. The way Hill sees it, American jobs are being moved to Canada to take advantage of lower supplemental labor costs, due to the “free” health insurance supplied by the state.

As Leftblogger Scott Tribe correctly points out, this is a new unification technique that represents a “turning of the tables” by Hillary. What she’s doing is unifying two different Democratic issue constituencies: urban labor concerns and suburban healthcare concerns. While she has spoken at length on both subjects previously, she had not put them in the same context before.

For a practical example of her idea, she referenced the experience of a Ford plant in Wixom, Michigan:

Clinton specifically cited the closing at the end of this year of the Ford assembly plant at Wixom, Mich., which is moving to St. Thomas, Ont.

“We’ve got to get those health-care costs under control because that’s one of the excuses people use for moving jobs,” she said.
(The Toronto Star via Scott’s DiaTribes)

However, problems quickly emerge with all of this.

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Valor from the North

Posted by: Ion | May 6th, 2007 · 12:21 AM

Video from November 11, 2006 (Canadian Remembrance Day) of Canadian casualties in Afghanistan. It’s an awfully long list. But it’s not only Canada that is grateful.

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The Fall of Kyoto

Posted by: Ion | April 22nd, 2007 · 5:28 PM

(photo: Miyabi)

The ancient capital of Kyoto, was one of the only Japanese cities which wasn’t extensively fire-bombed by the United States during World War II. The reason is said to be that Curtis Lemay (who was in charge of strategic air operations against the Japanese home islands), had visited the city prior to the war and thought it simply too beautiful to be destroyed. It is pretty (see above).

But since no good deed goes unpunished in this life, the city had its revenge on the United States by eventually becoming the namesake focal point of a world-wide effort to restrain the omnipotent American economy, in the service of allegedly “developing” countries like China.

They did it through something called the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. A enviromanticist dream treaty, with the fabulously bureaucratic acronymn: KPUFCCC. I suppose that might be pronounced as: Kahpuhfuccee. Which kind of sounds like something that might get you a cheap date in a Japanese red light district. Apart from that possibility, it’s fairly worthless.

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Nigeria’s Canadian Future?

Posted by: Ion | April 8th, 2007 · 9:08 PM

In an interesting development in Nigerian politics, one of the leading candidates in the presidential election is a Canadian pharmaceutical company’s CEO, Isa Odidi. His New Democrat Party, was founded by pro-trade Nigerian expatriate researchers and business leaders living in North America. They are opposed to outgoing president Olusegun Obasanjo’s corruption and constitutional meddling.

Odidi’s return to Nigeria as a presidential candidate, marks an interesting new chapter in the history of African brain drain. Should he succeed, it may encourage a trend among highly-educated and successful African expats:

The next president of Nigeria could be a successful Canadian research scientist and entrepreneur who longs to bring the ideals of his adopted country to his homeland.Fifty-year-old Isa Odidi will fly from Toronto to Nigeria’s capital, Lagos, on Sunday to campaign in the lead up to the oil-rich west African nation’s presidential election April 21.

If elected, the chief executive of IntelliPharmaCeutics Corp. says he will reform Nigeria’s judicial system, adopt legislation similar to a bill of rights, push for freedom of information laws and protect freedom of the press.
(Edmonton Sun)

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The United States of Satan

Posted by: Jason | March 6th, 2007 · 4:03 PM

There’s a shocking BBC poll out today which I found over at MSN.

Pollsters from the BBC questioned 1,000 people in 27 different countries, including the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Russia, China, India, Brazil, Mexico and Australia; as well as four predominantly Muslim countries: Egypt, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Indonesia; and two countries with large Muslim populations: Lebanon and Nigeria.

Of the respondents who participated in the poll, particular countries were given a rating of favorable and unfavorable. According to the poll, Israel, Iran, and the United States were the countries with the most negative image in the global survey of attitudes towards the 12 major nations.

The most evil of all nations, Israel, whose crime of defending itself from it’s racist and fascist neighbors since 1948, was ranked at the top with a 56 percent negative rating, and only an 18 percent positive rating. Iran, who has lately become yet another victim of evil U.S. imperialism, unfairly scored a 54 percent negative rating. And the Great Satan herself, The United States, finished third in the race with a negative rating of 51 percent.

51 percent negative, might I remind you, putting the United States as being a nation more disliked than North Korea (48 percent).

Canada, in all her glory, had the most favorable rating with a 54 percent positive rating and only a 14 percent negative rating.

In further news, the correction of various information concerning several events in history, which have become factually burdensome for the world community, is also being reported today.

According to the BBC, the United States has no longer participated in the liberation of France during WW2, nor has it ever been a major player in the crumbling of the Berlin Wall which freed millions of Eastern Europeans from tyranny. Also, China no longer has slaughtered millions of innocent civilians during it’s Communist revolution years ago, the Japanese have no longer eliminated the lives of millions of victims to it’s imperial reign in the early 20th century, North Korea no longer has participated in the rampant starvation of it’s people in order to acquire nuclear weapons used to threaten it’s neighbors, Russia no longer has oppressed and killed over 100 million people in it’s revolution years ago, and Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez has now topped the “all time swellest world leader list”.

Further, it has also been corrected now that Canada, not the U.S., actually takes in more immigrants seeking to better their lives, France did not embolden Hitler in the 1930s by refusing to use it’s army to attack him prematurely, Egypt no longer uses it’s secret police to imprison political opponents who speak out against the government, and the German citizens no longer cooperated with the Nazis in it’s destruction and gas murders of millions of Jewish citizens under Hitler.

The development of these news events has lifted heavy pressure from the United States, whose state department has sited several instances of economic strain from what it has viewed as the constant liberation of oppressed countries and embracing of millions of immigrants from around the world seeking to gain financially. According to new reports, Canada and France have now formed an alliance specifically dedicated to the world’s security concerns, while Venezuela and North Korea have agreed to take the place of the United States in becoming the new leaders of importing world immigration.

The BBC would now like to return you to it’s regularly scheduled brainwashing.

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Quote of the Week

Posted by: Jason | March 4th, 2007 · 9:43 PM

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

Winston Churchill

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Checking in on Stephen Harper

Posted by: Ion | February 16th, 2007 · 9:03 AM

It seems Mr. Harper has dramatically improved his personal standing with the Canadian electorate.

Thirty-five per cent of those asked said Harper is the most trustworthy of the major party leaders, which is up 14 per cent.

Liberal leader Stephane Dion is second with 20 per cent, while 8 per cent believe Gilles Duceppe is the most trustworthy, along with 18 per cent for Jack Layton.

Harper is also viewed as the most competent of the leaders at 41 per cent, and 39 per cent also said he has the best vision for Canada.

Unfortunately, the Conservative Party remains somewhat deadlocked with the other two parties in the thirties. This of course making a snap election to gain a majority extremely unlikely for the Tories.

Although, that hasn’t stopped them from engaging in an elaborate PsyOps pre-election campaign (complete with unprecendented television advertising). Something that has thoroughly spooked the Grits, who remain in political disarray.

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Prime Minister Howard… AMEN!

Posted by: Jason | · 9:02 AM

Can we just make it legal already to vote for our favorite Australian or British leaders for president here in the states?

Australia’s Prime Minister John Howard this week on Obama’s position to withdraw troops in Iraq by March of 2008:

I think that will just encourage those who want to completely destabilize and destroy Iraq, and create chaos and a victory for the terrorists to hang on and hope for an Obama victory.”

If I were running Al Qaeda in Iraq, I would